Ahmad Wael explains CVE-2026-2441, a Use-After-Free bug in Chrome’s Blink CSS engine triggered through @font-feature-values. It’s not literal code execution via CSS, but it’s a real reason to update your browser now.
After 14 years of stitching together WordPress hosting stacks, here is why I moved to WordPress.com: managed infrastructure, 99.999% uptime, real developer tools, and backups that actually restore.
WordPress 7.0 brings real-time collaboration and AI connectors into core, but legacy PHP meta boxes turn into a compatibility bottleneck. This post covers the latest Dev Chat agenda and what to fix before Beta 2.
WordPress developer documentation is finally updated to 6.9.1 after being stuck at 6.4 for two years. This post covers the syntax bugs, like nullable types and anonymous classes, that broke the parser, and what’s planned for WordPress 7.0.
WooCommerce 10.6 wires the woocommerce_get_breadcrumb filter into the WordPress Core Breadcrumbs block, so the second parameter can arrive as null instead of a WC_Breadcrumb object. Callbacks that call methods on it will fatal. An instanceof check is the fix.
Mailchimp’s Feb 28, 2026 database maintenance means four short API outages. Here’s what happens to WooCommerce syncs and custom integrations, and how to keep 503 errors from breaking your store.
Gutenberg 22.6 adds a server-side Icon block, visual revision diffing, and real-time collaboration via Yjs. It’s a stability-focused release ahead of WordPress 7.0.
A rundown of the February 2026 WordPress Performance Updates chat: Site Health tests moving to WP_Query, Modern Image Formats and View Transitions progress, and taming GitHub notification noise.
WordPress 7.0 changes how the iframed editor decides which posts get isolated CSS, checking blocks actually used in a post rather than every block registered on the site. Legacy blocks still work, but the push toward Block API version 3 is real.
WordPress.com built its new AI Assistant directly into the block editor and Media Library. It edits blocks and generates images with Google’s Gemini models, though full layout control needs a Block Theme.